The morning after this year's Oscars, journalist and author Mark Harris took time out of his schedule to speak about his beautifully wrought Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, a glimpse at the 1968 Best Picture race where old Hollywood met the innovative likes of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate. Given Mark Gill's recent statement about the state of independent filmmaking, the optimism of the early part of this conversation, an exploration of the 2007 independent scene, may find itself sealed in time, may express the type of energetic hopefulness that rightly layers itself into so many of Harris' pages for Pictures at a Revolution.
With Harris reading this Thursday evening at the New York Public Library, we reflect upon the conversation and seek in it some clues for the future of filmmaking from its rarel...
